Young people can face all sorts of pressures – including problems at school, with friends or at home.
connectEDspace is a website by Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV), dedicated to young people to help provide all the information they need to deal with the stuff they go through each day.

Aboriginal Family and Relationship Support

RAV provides support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and individuals to help strengthen family relationships.

Backgrounder

RAV is a leading provider of specialist family services in Victoria, with more than 230 employees across 13 sites. The bulk of our funding is from the Australian Government, with additional funding received from state and local government grants and client fees. Many services are provided free or at a modest charge, depending on the client's ability to pay.

In 2013/14, RAV provided services to nearly 18,000 clients across the State, including individuals, couples, families, workplaces and communities.

Our client centres at Ballarat, Boronia, Cranbourne, Greensborough, Kew, Shepparton, Sunshine and Traralgon provide the more traditional counselling and relationship support services. Each centre offers a wide range of additional services to many diverse groups and has helped to build the capacity of their respective communities, including the CALD and Indigenous communities. We also provide telephone counselling by appointment on a dedicated 1800 number.

RAV is also a significant provider of family relationship services through the Australian Government-funded Family Relationship Centres (FRCs). We are the lead agency at the Berwick, Greensborough, Melbourne and Sunshine FRCs, and a consortium partner at the Broadmeadows, Ballarat, Geelong and Ringwood centres.

Structurally, RAV is part of a national federation of Relationships Australia organisations, which while being independent of each other, share the common objective of supporting people to achieve positive and respectful relationships.